re: House of Cards Season 5 Thread Discussion

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That's not the case for the Underwoods as they are outright corrupt criminals. The biggest sign that that they are psychopathic monsters is the fact they they have repeatedly said that they hate kids and did everything they could to minimize them and avoid them. It takes someone so cold to actually hate kids. The Underwoods don't give a shite about anything but their own power and personal gain. They don't even care about their own spouse as evidenced by Frank and Claire completely hating each other and Frank promising to kill Claire.

The Underwoods have literally attacked the integrity of free and fair elections into outright election fraud, and also literally killed, sabotaged, blackmailed and framed innocent people to advance their own standing and gain power and high position. That's not being shameless/sleazy, that's being evil monsters that belongs in federal prison or more specifically, ADX Florence.

If this was real life and the Underwoods actually did half or even part of the shite they did in season 5, DC and like 85% of Americans as a whole would be losing their fricking minds and calling for their heads. We would be seeing actual riots in the streets. Just Hammerschmidt's article alone would've immediately started a search for a special prosecutor and special committees in Congress would've been convened immediately.

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This is why it should have been 3 fricking seasons. Frank gets to the top, Lucas gets out of prison years later and blows the lid off, and then boom, we see Frank fall.

There's no reason for it to go longer than that except of course you're a bunch of money grubbing hacks. It's comical how this show has stayed on.

Have the creators gone on record saying how long they want the show to run? Say what you will about Damon Lindeloff, but he was trying to negotiate the end date of LOST from the very start hoping for 5 seasons but settling at 6, with the final 3 being abbreviated seasons. Anything like that from these guys?

Probably the biggest decline in a show since Heroes.